website Review - How safe?

[billyrichards]

Maybe I'm being paranoid but I'd like to know if anyone has had a bad experience following a website review on here.

In theory, it seems that there's little stopping an unscrupulous visitor (not a trusted member of course) from creating a copycat site & cleaning up.

I've just gone live with my first ever site & can't think of a better place to get some honest feedback than here but, for the reasons above, I am a little hesitant.

Any thoughts,
Billy

 

[Ashton]

People can rip any site on the net, by just putting up a site its open to that. Very unlikely it will happen (though several of my designs have been ripped)

 

[Blossom]

I think that if you don't disclose any earnings/prices then you should be ok. If someone sees that a site is making XXX or more per month, then they are more likely to copy it.

To completely copy a site just because it's up for review here is misguided. An auction on Flippa, with proof of earnings and stats (including keywords) is much easier to copy and much less likely to be a waste of time.

 

[QualityNonsense]

Ideas are cheap, execution is everything.

The only site I've had ripped off I've never discussed on any forums etc, and was ripped off by the affiliate manager at a network.

It looks like junk, ranks for nothing and I'll wager earns nothing too.

 

[billyrichards]

Thanks for the comments everyone, that's answered my question.

Although the site is live it's pretty bare at the moment. I'll add a few of the features I want (when I've sussed out how to!) and then invite some comments in the review section.

Thanks again,
Billy

 

[storebuilder]

Ideas are cheap, execution is everything.

Now that is quality sense.

I had my site ripped off at sixhanded.com a couple of years ago.

Now all you see is:

No match for domain "SIXHANDEDPOKER.COM".
>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:27:49 UTC

I didn't know he'd given up until I just read this thread and took a look.

It's true. Peeps who action even average ideas win over those who have the best ideas and sit in the pub talking about it year after year.

 

[GreyWing]

+ Even Google knows which site had the content first and no longer punishes them for having their content copied. It knows content copying is widespread and only punishes the site with duplicated content on it.

Would worry too much as long as you don't go inviting competition by telling everyone how much you earn. But if you have a really market winning sledge hammer of a name then I suppose you can tell who you want as nobody can re-create the domain.

 

[scwebsites]

Every good website gets copied. Really good websites get copied by many.

Haw many wannabe facebooks have there been? How many million dollar homepages were there?

When my ideas are copied I take it as a compliment, but I always try to make things hard to steal and never launch all features and services at the same time so that if I am copied I can just roll out a new feature and stay ahead.

When content, as in text and pictures are copied, I report to Google DMCA (http://www.google.co.uk/dmca.html), and the offending parties host who will in most cases take the offending material down rather than risking legal action.

 

[billyrichards]

Every good website gets copied. Really good websites get copied by many.

Haw many wannabe facebooks have there been? How many million dollar homepages were there?

When my ideas are copied I take it as a compliment, but I always try to make things hard to steal and never launch all features and services at the same time so that if I am copied I can just roll out a new feature and stay ahead.

When content, as in text and pictures are copied, I report to Google DMCA (http://www.google.co.uk/dmca.html), and the offending parties host who will in most cases take the offending material down rather than risking legal action.

Content copying was the main concern really. I've not got a new idea or anything, just a format that I think fits with the domain name and will attract newcomers to a growing market.

Thanks for the DMCA link, that's my something new learned for today

 

[GotLiveChat]

There's nothing that can stop the copying of your content, but it's the back-end programming they won't have. If you're generating content through databases, they'll have to determine how you're doing it before they can copy that as well.
Don't worry so much about copying --but if you are use copyscape or some other service that monitors the 'net for you.